Formatting and accents in urls

[saquetim (Sérgio Saquetim)]

@Falco,

I’ve had the same problem.

404 when trying to edit category with accent in slug

Hi, I’ve accidentally created a new category with an accent in the slug and the settings below. After creating this category, clicking on the “Edit Button” in the new category was redirecting to the 404 page. => #<Category:0x00005624cbc90838 id: 182, name: "Sugestões", color: "F7941D", topic_id: 257800, topic_count: 0, created_at: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:11:40.677256000 UTC +00:00, updated_at: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:11:40.677256000 UTC +00:00, user_id: 2, topics_year: 0, topics_month: 0, to…

The slug generation method is set to ascii but I accidentally typed the slug with an accent. After that I couldn’t enter the edit page of the category.

In the end I fixed the problem entering the rails console and fixing the slug there.

It’s not totally Discourse fault since that depends on the user typing an accent when there shouldn’t be one. But it would be cool if the system checked if the slug typed has only ASCII characters if the slug generation method is set to ascii.